# lene
## English
### Etymology

Anglicisation of Latin lēnis. Doublet of lenis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈliːn/
* Homophone: lean

### Noun

lene (plural lenes)
* (phonetics) The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).
* (phonetics) A voiceless, or unaspirated, stopped consonant, such as Greek pi, kappa, or tau.
** 1861, William Edward Jelf, Accidence:When in a crasis, a lene consonant […] is combined with an aspirated vowel, the lene is always changed (except in the Ionic dialect) into the corresponding aspirate […]

#### Derived terms

* dagesh lene

### Anagrams

* Leen, Neel, elne

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eːnə

### Verb

lene
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of lenen

### Anagrams

* leen

## Galician
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lēnis, in substitution of the inherited form len (attested 13th century) which is preserved in the adverbial phrase ao len (“out in the open”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛne̝/

### Adjective

lene m or f (plural lenes)
* (literary) mild, gentle, soft
    Synonyms: maino, suave
** c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 280:Madre, sabes tu que Esau, meu yrmão he veloso et eu nõ, mays som lem, et se meu padre me apalpar et souber que sóóm eu, medo ey que coyde queo quis [excarnesçer], et em lugar de bendiçõ ey medo que me maldiga. Mother, you know that Esau, my brother, is hairy, but not me, I'm hairless; and if my father would touch me and find that it's me, I fear that he would think that I was mocking him, and instead of his blessing I would have his curse

### References

* “lem” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lene”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lene”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lene”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lēnis.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛ.ne/
* Rhymes: -ɛne
* Hyphenation: lè‧ne

#### Adjective

lene (plural leni) (literary)
* mild, gentle, soft
    Synonyms: delicato, lieve, mite, soave
    Antonyms: aspro, brusco, forte, greve, pesante
* (poetic) smooth
* (phonetics) lenis

##### Derived terms

* lenemente

##### Related terms

* lenità

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈle.ne/, /ˈlɛ.ne/
* Rhymes: -ene, -ɛne
* Hyphenation: lé‧ne, lè‧ne

#### Noun

lene f pl
* plural of lena

### References

* lene in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* ↑ lena in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From lēnis.

#### Adverb

lēne (comparative lēnius, superlative lēnissimē)
* softly, gently
    Synonym: lēniter

##### Related terms

* lēnīmen
* lēnīmentum
* lēniō
* lēnis
* lēnitās
* lēniter
* lēnitūdō

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

lēne
* nominative/vocative/accusative singular neuter of lēnis

### References

* “lene”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “lene”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* lene in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From German lehnen.

### Verb

lene (imperative len, present tense lener, passive lenes, simple past lenet or lente, past participle lenet or lent, present participle lenende)
* to lean

#### Derived terms

* armlene (of noun)

### References

* “lene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* lena

### Etymology

From German lehnen.

### Verb

lene
* to lean

#### Derived terms

* armlene (of noun)

### References

* “lene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lēnis. (The expected native form would be *lem from Old Galician-Portuguese lẽe.)

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈlẽ.ni/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈlẽ.ni/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈle.ne/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈlɛ.nɨ/
* Hyphenation: le‧ne

### Adjective

lene m or f (plural lenes)
* smooth, mild, gentle, soft
    Synonyms: brando, suave

#### Related terms

* lenição
* leniência
* leniente
* lenificação
* lenir
* lenização

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic лѣнь (lěnĭ), from Proto-Slavic *lěnь. Compare Serbo-Croatian lijénōst, Russian лень (lenʹ), Polish leń. Cf also Aromanian leani.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈle.ne/
* Rhymes: -ene
* Hyphenation: le‧ne

### Noun

lene f (uncountable)
* laziness, sloth, idleness, indolence
    Synonyms: indolență, trândăvie, lâncezeală, delăsare
    a îi fi lene ― to be lazy, not feel like

#### Usage notes

See leneș.

#### Derived terms

* alene
* leneș

### Further reading

* lene in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Adjective

lene
* inflection of len:
** masculine accusative plural
** feminine genitive singular
** feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlene/ [ˈle.ne]
* Rhymes: -ene
* Syllabification: le‧ne

### Adjective

lene m or f (masculine and feminine plural lenes)
* (obsolete) soft
* (obsolete) sweet
* (obsolete) light

### Further reading

* “lene”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Adjective

lene
* definite natural masculine singular of len

### Anagrams

* elen